Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Russian Version of Court’s Anniversary Book Presented
Earlier this week, the Russian translation of the Court’s anniversary book (which dates from two years ago – see here) was presented. It will be distributed to 5,000 local judges and prosecutors in Russia. Symbolic as this may be, more important for…
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New Case Law Developments in Removal and Extradition
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights issued two judgments and an important decision, all dealing with state-enforced transfer of people from one state to another. One case is about the extradition of a suspected criminal to the United States, another…
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Article on Draft Protocol 16
Dr Paul Gragl of the City University London has written an article about the Draft Protocol 16 (yet to be formally adopted). The article, entitled ‘(Judicial) Love is Not a One-Way Street: The EU Preliminary Reference Procedure as a Model for ECtHR…
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NGO Reaction to Draft Protocol 15 and Comment
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to host another guest post on this blog. This time by dr Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Surrey. He has written some short comments on the very recent Open Letter of a group of leading…
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New Academic Articles on the ECHR
The newest edition of SIM’s ‘Online Contents’ on human rights publications (March 2013) is out now. It includes a number of ECHR-related publications. By far the most concern the various issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of last year (2012).…
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My New Work on the Significant Disadvantage Admissibility Criterion
I have just posted my new book chapter on the European Convention’s admissibility article of the lack of a significant disadvantage on SSRN. The contribution, to be published later this year in an edited volume, is entitled ‘Significantly Insignificant? The Life in…
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Accession of EU to ECHR Draft Agreement: Finally Finalised
It has taken some time, not just because of the legal complexities but also because of political reasons, but now it is finally there: this past Friday the Draft Agreement on Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human…
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UK Prisoner Voting Rights Update
The continuing saga of voting rights for prisoners in the United Kingdom now includes a new episode. This week the Court decided (in an unpublished decision) to adjourn the consideration of over 2,500 prisoner voting rights cases until at the latest September 2013.…
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New Issue IAEHR
The newest edition of the annual journal Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal (vol. 5, nos. 1-2, 2013) is out now. It includes at least two articles on the European Convention: * Erick Acuña Pereda, ‘The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between…
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Another Hurdle Taken for Protocol 15
Last week, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) agreed that Draft Protocol 15, which aims to reform several aspects of the Convention system, could be adopted without amendment. It did so on the basis…